Avast and Czech Technical University brought attendees topics ranging from hallucinating AI to the machine vs. machine struggle of adversarial algorithms
A new kind of conference drew speakers and presenters from 11 nations to Prague last month. CyberSec & AI Prague combined top academic speakers with students presenting their ideas. Topics included adversarial AI – a subject at the very height of the industry’s expertise – and the egalitarian notion of “AI for the people.”
The conference, co-sponsored by Avast and the Czech Technical University, included many memorable moments, from ‘hallucinating AI’ to Pokemon AI. Here are 10 of the best.
1. Avast’s new Chief Technical Officer Michal Pechoucek (pictured above), also a longtime professor at CTU, set the bar high for the conference with his opening keynote. AI, often perceived as a threat to humanity that must be tamed, can in fact be a protector, he suggested. “How can AI help us to live free, safe and secure? We can solve this riddle.” Read more on his view of AI for good.
2. Some of the top technical achievements in AI occur in adversarial algorithms, which learn by competing. Does that threat really confront cybersecurity today? “Adversarial attacks on cybersecurity’s malware detectors might seem theoretical, but actually they are already happening in the wild,” said Avast AI researcher Sadia Afroz (pictured above).
3. Can AI hallucinate? Battista Biggio (pictured above), an assistant professor at Italy’s University of Cagliari, said in a presentation that it has been shown that data-driven artificial intelligence and machine learning models suffer from hallucinations known as “adversarial examples,” including perceiving images, text, and audio that a ..
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